Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
International Foodservice Distributors Association
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: international-foodservice-distributors-association.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
FOO
79 filings
$13M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
71 filings
$13.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
53 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
43 filings
$7.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
32 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
32 filings
$5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
32 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
29 filings
$5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
20 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
15 filings
$913K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
117th Congress
Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021
14 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act14 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 20118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 270116th CongressPaycheck Fairness Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 569116th CongressDRIVE-Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 803116th CongressRestoring Investment in Improvements Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S.Con.Res. 11116th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2029.8 filingsthrough 2020
S.Con.Res. 12116th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2024.8 filingsthrough 2020
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Darin Lynn GardnerJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep Kay Granger; Research Associate Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Leg Correspondent, Sen. Tim Hutchison22 filingsthrough 2019
Mala K. ParkerInternational Foodservice Distributors AssociationCovered position: Vice President, Government Relations21 filingsthrough 2026
Kristin Leigh SpiridonInternational Foodservice Distributors AssociationCovered position: Chief Oversight Counsel, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Senior Counsel, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform13 filingsthrough 2026
Brian WildBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: ​Senior Advisor Office of Speaker John Boehner; Deputy Assistant for Leg AffairsVP Cheney; Chief of StaffRep. Pat Toomey; Legislative AssistantSen. Hank Brown10 filingsthrough 2022
Geoffrey Grant BurrBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff at US DOT; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs at US DOL9 filingsthrough 2022
David CoffieldInternational Foodservice Distributors Association7 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph Philip KalminInternational Foodservice Distributors AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Dan Donovan (R-NY-11)6 filingsthrough 2026
Brian MckeonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: ​Legislative Aide Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel Sen Boxer; Legislative Director Senator Shaheen5 filingsthrough 2021
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen4 filingsthrough 2020
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs4 filingsthrough 2020
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: ​Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham, Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor4 filingsthrough 2020
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence4 filingsthrough 2020
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst., Sen. McConnell, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. McConnell, Legislative Aide, Sen. McConnell, Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Appropriations Coordinator, Sen. McConnell, Sr. Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Chief of Staff, Sen. McCon4 filingsthrough 2020
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House4 filingsthrough 2020
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: ​Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering4 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 24 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
